MAXIE’S Hangout Bar and Fish Shop on Garnett Street and Vlissengen Road was the place to be Friday evening as sports enthusiast Manniram ‘Packer’ Shew held his domino birthday bash, featuring Wild Bunch, Canal 6 and International 6.

‘Birthday Boy’ Manniram Shew is seen in this Cullen Bess-Nelson photo handing over trophy to fellow team member Roderick Harry who came out as the top marker with 18 games.`

Canal 6 started out of the blocks with a quick-fire 17 games leaving International 6 and Wild Bunch trailing with 10 and eight games respectively. Canal 6 continued their run to the end of the third sitting as the score read Canal 6 with 41 games, International 6 on 36 games and Wild Bunch 25 games.

With three sittings remaining, International 6, led by their skipper Manniram Shew, Roderick Harry and Edmund Sammy made a dramatic 17 games, in comparison to Canal 6’s 10 games and Wild Bunch eight games to gain a slim lead with the score being now International 6 on 52 games, Canal 6 following with 51 games and Wild Bunch way below par on 33 games.

Not to be outdone, Ron Callender, Colin Hicken and Intikab Ali backed up with a well-played 16 games and widened the lead and it was left to Shew, Harry and Sammy to seal the game in the final sitting as Ramroop Sukhai of Canal 6 was taken down lovers’ lane compliments of Harry. The final scores read International 6 with 78 games, Canal 6 and Wild Bunch romping in on 69 and 61 games respectively.

Top scorers in the match were Roderick Harry with 18 games, Shew chipping in a well supported 14 games for International 6, Tractor Seepaul and Mark Dookhan starring in Canal 6’s cause with 16 and 15 games respectively while Neil Henry and Junior Ramchurjee made 14 games apiece in Wild Bunch’s cause.

There were two other lovebirds for the evening, coming from Wild Bunch – Jermain Jackson and Trevor Bovell.

First- and second-place trophies were awarded to the winners and runners-up respectively with the winners receiving a further $27 000 cash incentive.